Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream

by Diane P. Koenker

Book Overview

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501710672
• ISBN13: 9781501710674
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher